BUG: rank gives incorrect outputs on Windows with PyArrow backend #61896
Description
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Reproducible Example
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [3,6,1,1,None,6]}, dtype='Int64[pyarrow]')
df['a_mask'] = df['a'].isna()
print(df.groupby('a_mask').rank(method='min'))Issue Description
On Windows, this outputs
a
0 4.0
1 1.0
2 1.0
3 1.0
4 <NA>
5 5.0
Expected Behavior
On Linux, it outputs
a
0 3.0
1 4.0
2 1.0
3 1.0
4 <NA>
5 4.0
Installed Versions
Windows:
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit : c888af6
python : 3.11.9
python-bits : 64
OS : Windows
OS-release : 10
Version : 10.0.26100
machine : AMD64
processor : Intel64 Family 6 Model 141 Stepping 1, GenuineIntel
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : None
LOCALE : English_United Kingdom.1252
pandas : 2.3.1
numpy : 2.3.1
pytz : 2025.2
dateutil : 2.9.0.post0
pip : None
Cython : None
sphinx : None
IPython : 9.4.0
adbc-driver-postgresql: None
adbc-driver-sqlite : None
bs4 : None
blosc : None
bottleneck : None
dataframe-api-compat : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : None
html5lib : None
hypothesis : 6.135.32
gcsfs : None
jinja2 : 3.1.6
lxml.etree : None
matplotlib : None
numba : None
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
psycopg2 : None
pymysql : None
pyarrow : 21.0.0
pyreadstat : None
pytest : 8.4.1
python-calamine : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlsxwriter : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2025.2
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None
Linux:
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit : c888af6
python : 3.12.8
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Version : #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jun 5 18:30:46 UTC 2025
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : C.UTF-8
LOCALE : C.UTF-8
pandas : 2.3.1
numpy : 2.3.1
pytz : 2025.2
dateutil : 2.9.0.post0
pip : None
Cython : None
sphinx : None
IPython : 9.1.0
adbc-driver-postgresql: None
adbc-driver-sqlite : None
bs4 : None
blosc : None
bottleneck : None
dataframe-api-compat : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : 2025.7.0
html5lib : None
hypothesis : 6.135.32
gcsfs : None
jinja2 : 3.1.6
lxml.etree : None
matplotlib : 3.10.3
numba : None
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
psycopg2 : None
pymysql : None
pyarrow : 21.0.0
pyreadstat : None
pytest : 8.4.1
python-calamine : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.16.0
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlsxwriter : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2025.2
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None